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New Zealand Case Law

Authority of receivers to sue post-liquidation
  • 29 Aug 2008

    CRAIG & ANOR V PHRUDAN HOLDINGS LIMITED HC AK CIV 2005-404-1935

    Citation
    openlaw-21904325_5777_479e_8333_ad90675f4171.pdf
    Court
    High Court

    The strike out application was dismissed: inadvertent misdescription by counsel did not amount to an abuse of process warranting strike out; receivers may, with the liquidators' consent, continue enforcement proceedings post-liquidation where they have a genuine commercial interest; the arrangement to fund enforcement and share proceeds was not champertous and is within the liquidators' powers subject to statutory distribution priorities.

    • Strike out
    • Maintenance and champerty
    • Authority of receivers to sue post-liquidation
    • Powers of liquidator
    • Agency and consent to continue proceedings
    • Enforcement of judgment